SIR R PEEL ON CORN LAW REPEAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6213, 15 October 1881, Page 6

SIR R PEEL ON CORN LAW REPEAL.

[From «• English PoUUcal Leaders." By G. B. Smith,] " Sir, there is a name which ought to be associated with the success of these mea-j sures; it is not the name of the noble lord) the member for London, neither is it my name, sir; the name which, ought to be and which will be associated with the success oil

these measures is tha name ofT*"^^" l acting, I believe, from pure and a *h O , motives, has advocated their causi^fe 8 tiring energy, and by appeals to re« h *** forced by an eloquence the m n, enadmired because it was unaffeeEi *° ** adorned—the name which oueht ft S £ d us " which will be associated with thesi» m is tlie name of Richard CoS ■? Mure » sp-aker closed with apersona] ? e *i«3 become more widely known t\ h,ch other utterance throughout his lom, P *?* mentary career. "In rllashall leave a name severely cen 3 urM P T Wer J by many who, on public grounds ~ S regret the severance of party ties' regret that severance, not from i P ' 7 personal motives, but from the'firm Ur viction that fidelity to party the existence and maintenance of *- party—constitutes a powerful instn^ 6 * of government; I shall surrender ™ eDt severely censured also by others wh - r no interested motive, adhere to th "^' n ciple of Protection, considering tli e C tenance of it to be essential to the Jμ ' and interests of the country • I s | n n i We name execrated by every monopolist Irt* from less honourable motives, clamour, f°' Protection, because it conduces to h - M individual benefit; but it mr.v be thT? shall leave a name sometimes ! with expression of goodwill in the abo<lr. t those whose lot it is to labour am! tT their daily bread by the sweat of their bm" 1 when they shall recruit their exhan-i strength with abundant and untaxed' f-mi the sweeter because it is no longer leave i by a sense of injustice." ° ' J